Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America

by Frederick Cooper and Allen F. Isaacman

Book Overview

Confronting Historical Paradigms argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century, and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labor, and the capitalist world system. Moreover, it maintains, the intellectual reverberations within and across the African and Latin American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299136841
• ISBN13: 9780299136840
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"